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sequency|ˈsiːkwənsɪ|
[ad. late L. sequentia: see sequence n. and -ency.]
†1. = sequence n. 7. Obs.
1641R. B. K. Parall. Liturgy with Mass-Book 28 That famous sequency of Pentecost... In some of their sequencies..are contained praises of the B. Virgin.
†2. The condition or fact of being sequent to.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. iv. 40 The sole difficulties about the Will, its nature, and sequency to the Understanding, &c. have almost quite baffled inquiry.
†3. = sequence n. 5 a. Obs.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. xxxiv, Why was this world from all infinity Not made? saist thou: why? could it be so made? Say I. For well observe the sequency.
4. The quality of being sequent, or of following as a logical or natural consequence; connexion between successive events, or between the successive parts of an argument or discourse; consecutiveness.
1818Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 231 The connexion of the parts with the sum total of the discourse is maintained by the sequency of the logic. 1826E. Irving Babylon I. i. 48 Were it redeemed and set free from..the sequency of cause and effect. 1857J. W. Donaldson Chr. Orthod. 164 A want of sequency in the narrative of events. 1879Meredith Egoist xxii, It was to suppose a sequency in the conduct of a variable damsel. |